Olympic Athletic Wear Made Entirely From Condom Material Created
The first Olympic athletic wear made entirely from condom material has been created by designer Pauline Van Dongen as an alternative to latex. The revolutionary material benefits from biomimicry, which works with your skin to temperature adjust for the ultimate performance weapon. Streamlined and close fitting, the new suit lets athletes feel everything to allow for ultimate precision and performance. The concept outfit for future Olympic athletes is leaps ahead of its time, with the rubber-like material creating vents in the upper...
Majestic Caves Discovered Below Clifton Suspension Bridge Opened to Public
Majestic caves discovered under Clifton Suspension Bridge have been opened to the public for the first time after been found by chance in 2002 by a builder. Hidden for more than 150 years the stunning cathedral-like vaults have been unveiled under Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s engineering masterpiece for the first time since the bridge opened in 1864. The vaults are inside the massive two-storey abutments which support the bridge towers either side of the Avon Gorge in Bristol. It was assumed for decades that they...
The Rainbow Olympics – Is this our most diverse games yet?
It’s hard not to feel patriotic as the hysteria around the Olympics continues to grow. If you aren’t watching it, then you’re reading about it and if you’re lucky enough to have scored a ticket to Rio itself, then quite frankly I’m jealous. Since the opening ceremony on Friday 5th August, we’ve been glued to our screens watching the athletes that have flown 5767 miles to take part in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Taking to our armchairs, we’ve become a...
Villa Thrashed by Luton After Chairman Promises to make them ‘Europe’s Biggest Club’
Sport News 24/7 Aston Villa were thrashed by League 2's Luton Town in the EFL Cup last night following promises by Dr Tony Xia that the club would be the biggest in Europe in five years. Talking to fans on Twitter in a #AskTheChairman forum he said the club could be up there with the likes of Manchester United, Real Madrid and Barcelona in a few years, with the "highest number of fans all over the world". But his optimism may have been...
Avocado consumption fuelling deforestation in central America
I had an Avocado for lunch, in fact I had one for dinner as well last night. It seems to be something we all increasingly use regularly in our meals, it isn’t just for hipsters and Waitrose shoppers anymore. However, the popularity of Avocados in our diets is allegedly causing deforestation in central Mexico, according to the Guardian. Farmers in the country, which has suffered from thousands of drug related murders in recent years, are able to make larger profits...
Beer of the Week – Big Smoke Brew Co. Underworld Milk Stout
Strength: 5% Brewed: Surbiton, Surrey Initially set up as a microbrewery behind The Antelope pub in Surbiton, Big Smoke Brew Co. have become massively renowned for their beer over the past two years, most of which are vegan-friendly. Operating from an old stables premise, Big Smoke’s produce is representative of the beer that the brewery founders personally enjoy drinking, which is all flavoursome, hard-hitting and additive free. The brewery also makes a clear point of refraining from using Isinglass finings...
Parents who put kids on a vegan diet would face jail under potential law
The vegan diet is hailed as one of the healthiest, the actor Jared Leto seems to be the poster boy for a vegan lifestyle. So it is a shock that over in Italy an MP wants to make children who are exposed to a vegan diet victims of a crime. Elvira Savino, a Centre-right MP, is lobbying for a law which would protect any children from diets that may not contain enough vitamins and iron. This could mean that parents...
Knebworth: The Day Oasis Made History
Twenty years ago to the day Oasis made history by playing sell-out gigs at Knebworth Park in front of a quarter of a million people. The Brit Pop band were supported by The Charlatans, Kula Shaker, Manic Street Preachers, The Bootleg Beatles, The Chemical Brothers, Ocean Colour Scene and The Prodigy over the two nights, playing in front of 125,000 people per night. Over 2.6 million people applied for tickets for the shows, making it the largest ever demand for concert tickets...
Two-thirds of females have suffered workplace sexual harassment
It seems like a headline from the dark days of the workplace of the 1950s, but unfortunately sexual harassment in the workplace is still prominent in offices and factories across the UK. New research has indicated that over half of women at work have been sexually pestered at some stage in their careers. Look around your office and there is a high chance that a lot of women at your work have sadly been affected by sexual abuse. For younger...